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Max Romeo & The Upsetters

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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The Tumbling Psychic Joy of Now, a ritualistic and expanding collaborative album between Holy Tongue and Shackleton.Holy Tongue is Al Wooton, Valentina Magaletti and Susumu Mukai and they have collaborated with Shackleton to create free-form, high energy, spiritual dub-dance music.

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War Ina Babylon

LP | 1976 | UK | Reissue (Universal)

Release: 1976 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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7" | 1976 | EU | Reissue (Top Ranking Sound)

The Marijuanas

Tell Us When

The Modern Sound Of Harry Beckett

Release: 1976 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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The deep cut "Tell Us When" by The Marijuanas (Ewart Peters & Dennis Lawrence), featuring the Chalwah Allstars, is finally getting a reissue. Originally recorded in 1976 at Harry J's Studio and produced by Jah T (Noel Young), this roots gem takes you back to the golden age of Jamaican music. Despite the duo’s brief collaboration, the track became a vinyl collector's treasure. This restored reissue preserves the raw energy of the original, bringing its timeless themes to a new generation.

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Harry Beckett

LP | 2024 | UK | Original (On-U Sound)

31,99 €*

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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The Soulettes / The Upsetters

Let It Be / Big Dog Bloxie

7" | 1970 | UK | Reissue (Harlem Shuffle)

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Soundway)

Release: 1970 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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This is the very first reissue of the much in demand double sided killer single released in 1970 on the Upsetter label. Both tracks were produced by Lee Perry. The A side is a beautiful yet wicked cover of LET IT BE by the Beatles, produced by Lee Perry and performed by the Soulettes. The B side is BIG DOG Bloxie, an even wackier version of the A side by Lee Perry!

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The Lahaar

16,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Reggae & Dancehall

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Drawing inspiration from the depths of late 70’s NYC proto-rap disco instrumentals, Nigerian boogie, Jamaican dub and modern jazzy house - The Lahaar is a Trans-Tasman collaboration between Julien Dyne, Horatio Luna and Surprise Chef’s Lachlan Stuckey, featuring Mara TK and Toby Laing on vocals. The EP embarks on a 5-track rollercoaster - kicking off with “Doin’ It”, fast-paced jazz-funk peppered with marimba and organ riffs, balanced out by the siren vocals of Mara TK. “Step 2” suddenly brakes and swerves into cruise mode, repurposing the trumpets and dub echoes - picking up tempo in the soulful melancholia of “Work Work Work”. In the last two tracks the organs and guitars make a frenetic comeback by way of disco-house, ending with a nod to 70s cop movie funk.

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LP | 1984 | CZ | Reissue (Island)

Legend

Lee Perry & The Upsetters

Release: 1984 / CZ – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Reggae & Dancehall

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There are few musicians whose music has indisputably advanced humanity. Reggae figurehead Bob Marley--a songwriter, poet, activist, and visionary--is one of them. The idea that a single-disc collection could represent the depth, breadth, and power of Marley's achievement is far-fetched, but LEGEND makes an excellent attempt. Every single one of its tracks is outstanding, and the artist's different faces--revolutionary ("Get Up Stand Up"), romantic ("Is This Love"), devout Rastafarian ("Buffalo Soldier"), and prophet ("One Love/People Get Ready") are equally represented.In addition to his moving message of love and unity, Marley is a master songwriter, as the timelessness of songs like "Stir It Up," "I Shot the Sheriff," and the gorgeous, poignant "Redemption Song" proves. Of course, a true sampling of Marley's output would require some early ska material, the Wailer's debut (CATCH A FIRE), the definitive NATTY DREAD, and his later-period opus EXODUS, but LEGEND provides a highly satisfying, if brief, overview of Marley's genius. A record well suited to any location, season, or time of day, it has proven universal in its appeal. The music herein is as essential as air.

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Jungle Lion

7" | 2024 | EU | Original (Skank And Groove)

LP | 2024 | EU (Soulbeats)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Jungle Lion is such a fun funky recording which aptly displays Scratch’s musical genius. Music connosiers will immediately recognise the interpolation of Al Green’s „Love and Happines“ and hear Perry‘s eccentric antics which gives the tune it’s raw edge.

The novelty of this recording greets the listener at the very beginning where Scrath imitates the roar of a lion and and then continues througout in his signature revolutionary style of experimental overdubbing.

Jungle Lion, released in 1973 in the studio album Double Seven recorded at the Chalk Farm Studios in London by the Upsetters, is a lesson in why this small island native became one of the most influential music producer globally. Later the same year he went on to build The Black Ark Studio at his home in Kingston, Jamaica.

The song was featured on Madlib's classic "Blunted in the bomb shelter"

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The Dynamics

The Dragn'fly

On The Rock Remastered Black Vinyl

Release: 2024 / EU

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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THE Dynamics • Drag’n'fly by Vincent Hello. Jamaica, 1960s. Ska artists, rock steady and reggae take back some soul songs of the United States, thus giving their versions that will in turn become future classics. The hits of the moment are also seasoned with Jamaican sauce, no matter where it comes from Original, pop, country, jazz... The rhythms of the island permanently transform the tracks of origin. In 2024, with their third album called Dragn'fly and decorated with a beautiful dragonfly (a "dragonfly" so in the language of King Tubby) the Dynamics honour Jamaican tradition and dynamite 10 versions of hits from yesterday and today. The Dragonfly spread his wings reggae, soul, funk to land in all headsets at the heart of good stereos and on spicy dancefloors. Because this dragonfly is a true superfly that speaks to the heart... and legs. After two albums whose success led them to walk the globe of Glastonbury in Tokyo, honoured by the large elders (the first part of Lee Perry here, a regular dj support of Don Letts over there) the Dynamics are alive so their 'soul reggae vocal sound system” in front of audiences specializing in Jamaican or to those who are who were lucky enough to meet them by chance in Chemical Brothers... or Lady Gaga. The Dynamics have forgotten the weight of ancestors to make their own recipe. They proclaim it, they are Sound System! The voices of Mounam, Steve Levi and Mr Day are in the front row, so making lovers, preachers, crooners and crooners to Turns of Duty, while Fab Master Flab all in one of the roots and futuristic echos. But if the mind is a sound system, the dynamics sounds also as a group through instruments live performances that plunge the tracks into a fervor unique. And then there are the hits, so, from all times and of all styles. The low rider becomes toaster and leaves the road a American carried by these vocal harmonies Sky to take the exit Kingston. On the roadside, the joker delivers his lovers soft rock after a small detour to Muscle Shoal, The time to borrow a guitar from Duane Allman. In the south again, Mounam “Mrs Dynamics” meets the spirit of «Mr Dynamite» and tells him his radical, soul version. “ man’s world...” inna digital style! The spiritual anthem “you got to have freedom” by Master Pharoah Sanders becomes a universal skank, pop and dub who sends resounding high its universal message Dance! The dynamics are mutating the classic of ESG into a small, minimal pop bomb that is not without resemblance to the Neptunes of Mr Pharell Williams. On the edge of the track, Peter Gabriel sees his “Sledgehammer” groover as he does could imagine it and dissolve into sublime soul scrolls. Later, “After laughter...” soul classic celebrated and sampled Born into a rock steady air promised also to eternity. JJ Cale’s "cocaine," leaves its on the dancefloor for a reggae disco version, necessarily! And then, we must conclude. So it’s time to send an original title. It will be "Rubba Sub", to the aromas of sleng teng, which proves that far from the hits, the Dynamics deploys same layouts to deliver fresh and authentic sounds. And when the dub echoes evaporated, that the riddims have been silent, only remains an album majestic, in turn a future classic, full of unique Dynamics sound that mixes with instinct the echoes of yesterday to its own voices today.

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Israel Vibration

2LP | 1995 | EU | Reissue (RAS)

41,99 €*

Release: 1995 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (The Drop)

Lock-In

Junior Dell & The D-Lites

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Fat Freddy's Drop present the ‘lock-in’ album, a sonic moment in time as the band jam conscious songs of freedom and hope for a generation. The studio session was captured at the iconic Michael Fowler Centre in the band’s hometown of Wellington, New Zealand during the pandemic lockdown. Devoid of audience, it’s a reflection of the surreal times that’s halted tour life 2020. The band re-located their Bays studio to the MFC and set up in a circle on the MFC stage for the recording, providing a unique space to jam slow burn classics such as ‘Soldier’, ‘Hope’ and ‘This Room’ as well as test drive ‘Avengers’ a brand new track in the making. The other tracks recorded are 'Special Edition', ‘Six-Eight', ‘OneFourteen’ and 'Trickle Down’ from ‘Special Edition Part 1’ the band’s most recent album. The crisp multi-track production was recorded by Western Audio, monster mix back at Bays studio by DJ Fitchie, Freddys beat master and producer. Mastering at Calyx studio in Berlin. The ‘lock-in’ session melds Freddys fastidious studio chops and love of freewheeling jams with a tautness that comes from 21 years in the business and a reputation as one of the finest live draws in the world.

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Comin' Home Baby

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Original Gravity)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 2024 | UK | Original (Ancient Archive Of Sound)

Nat Birchall

Dimensions Of The Drums

34,99 €*

She Caught The Train / Cora

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Reggae & Dancehall

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This album was inspired by the music coming out of Jamaica in the mid 1970s, in particular the use of drum machines by Lee Perry and Aston Family Man Barrett (and Sly Stone in the USA) but also the instrumentals and dubs by Keith Hudson and Im & Count Ossie etc. Searching out, buying and listening to those records had a deep and profound effect on me and became a big influence on me as a musician, which continues to this day.
All instruments, recording and mixing by Nat Birchall

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Ray Martell

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Harlem Shuffle)

12" | 2023 | EU | Original (Moonshine)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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7inch black vinyl 45 RPM - Hsrss-0025 Special Edition - Strictly Limited TO 500 Copies This is the first re-release on 7inch vinyl single of the early Reggae classic “She Caught The Train” by Ray Martell released in 1970 on the Trojan sublabel Joe in the U.K. and later covered by UB 40 in 1983. The original Jamaican song, a huge hit, has featured on many compilations but has never been repressed as a single, until now…It is still extremely popular and very much in demand today. It was initially released with the track “Tea House From Emperor Roscoe” by Dice The boss on the B side - which we also release separately on the 22nd of March 2024 – see below. On this release, we chose to showcase a super rare song written and performed by Ray Martell, the gorgeous “Cora” initially released on Attack in 1970. Both tracks have never been reissued until now.

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Danny T & Tradesman

Wicked City EP

15,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Joe Yamanaka & The Wailers

Reggae Vibration HHV Exclusive Green & Red Vinyl Edition

LP | 1982 | EU | Reissue (Jamdung)

LP | 1976 | UK | Reissue (On High)

Release: 1982 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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HHV exclusive vinyl edition on multi-colored vinyl, limited to 100 copies. Only available at hhv.de!

Joe Yamanaka, born in Yokohama, was of mixed descent. His father was a US Army soldier who hailed from the Caribbean. He played Psychedelic Rock with the Flower Travellin' Band. He was also a philanthropist, travelling around the world to help people in countries where conditions aren't great. He himself was raised in harsh conditions as well, being born in a brothel and growing up in an orphanage. In post-war Japan, it was not easy for him to grow up looking racially different from his peers. Joe Yamanaka joined The Wailers after Bob Marley had passed away and recorded with them 'Reggae Vibration'. The very first track is also called 'Reggae Vibration' and can be seen as his introduction to the genre, being a Rock artist in his home country. You will still hear a strong Rock influence in his songs. 'Reggae Vibration' was Recorded And Remixed At Tuff Gong Studios, 56 Hope RD Kingston Jamaica, In April 14th 1982 ~ April 30th 1982

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The Heptones

Cool Rasta

36,99 €*

LP | 2016 | CZ | Reissue (Daptone)

Release: 1976 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Cool Rasta is an album by The Heptones, which consisted of Earl Morgan, Barry Llewellyn, and Leroy Sibbles. Brought up in the Trench Town area of Kingston, their first successful record was Fatty Fatty, first released in 1966. Since then, they have had several hits including 'Country Boy,' 'Mama Say,' and 'Book Of Rules.' At the guiding hand of top producer, Harry Johnson they recorded Cool Rasta, which came out in 1976. The title track of the album is a typical example of The Heptones at their brilliant best.

Remastered and pressed on audiophile virgin vinyl for your listening pleasure.

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The Frightnrs

Nothing More To Say

7" | EU | Reissue (Beverleys)

Release: 2016 / CZ – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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The Frightnrs escort Daptone into the world of long-playing reggae with both the sweetest and the roughest record of the decade.

Crafted under the meticulous eye of black-belt reggae mastermind/producer Victor Axelrod (aka Ticklah), Nothing More to Say is a rocksteady masterpiece the likes of which has not reared it's head since the golden era of Studio One. However, you'll find no imitation here - none of the faux-jamaican cliches of lesser reggae bands. Like all things Daptone, this record is above all soulful and honest.

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Toots & The Maytals

54/46

Release: EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 1976 | UK | Reissue (Universal)

Burning Spear

Man In The Hills

Release: 1976 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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2LP | 2005 | UK | Original (The Drop)

Based On A True Story

30,99 €*

3LP | 2008 | UK | Reissue (Ninja Tune)

Release: 2005 / UK – Original

Genre: Organic Grooves, Electronic & Dance, Reggae & Dancehall

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1st studio produced album by the New Zealand group from 2005. The album utilized the band's trademark dub, reggae, soul and funk influenced sound, and has been successful both in terms of sales and of critical reception. 7 times platinum in New Zealand!

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The Bug

London Zoo

41,99 €*

Uluru 003 Green Vinyl Edition

Release: 2008 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Hip Hop, Electronic & Dance, Reggae & Dancehall

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London Calling 2008: great dubstep, grime, digital dancehall tracks feat. Warrior Queen, Spaceape, Flowdan of Roll Deep Crew, Tippa Irie, ... highly recommended!

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Jstar, The Dynamates

7" | 2020 | EU | Reissue (Uluru)

Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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The Keyboard King At Studio One Black Vinyl Edition Reissue

Jackie Mittoo

LP | 2000 | UK | Reissue (Soul Jazz)

31,99 €*

The People's Choice Dub Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2000 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Jackie Mittoo is one of the defining figureheads of reggae music !From forming The Skatalites, at age 15, alongside Don Drummond, Roland Alphonso, Tommy McCook and others, to his work as writer, arranger, producer at Studio One records during the sixties, writing and playing for artists such as Alton Ellis, Ken Boothe, Marcia Griffiths and The Heptones (to name a few), to his career as a solo artist as well as leader of bands such as The Soul Brothers, Soul Vendors and The Sound Dimension, Jackie Mittoo is at the heart of reggae music. He was one of the instigators of Ska, Rocksteady and Reggae. In the seventies, DJ music and Dancehall were based upon classic rhythms of the sixties, many using the instrumental tracks that Jackie Mittoo created at Studio One at this time.This compilation features the work of Jackie Mittoo at Studio One. It features music recorded as a solo artist (as opposed to the numerous singers that he accompanied). Most of these are taken from his recordings in the mid-sixties where he was recording on an almost daily basis at Studio One"s Brentford Road studios developing the funky reggae sound that was his trademark.Jackie Mittoo is as much an icon of Reggae as he is to fans of Funk music. He is without doubt the funkiest keyboard player ever to come out of Jamaica!

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The Scientist

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Dubmusic Productions)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Deep & heavy dubs mixed by The Scientist at King Tubby's

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Studio Recordings Intro To The Matrix

2LP | 2023 | JP | Original (P-Vine)

47,99 €*

King Scratchmusical Masterpieces From The Upsetter

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Recordings from a studio jam session before Bob Marley & The Wailers’ legendary performance at San Francisco's The Matrix reissued on vinyl for the first time ever! After the release of their world debut Catch A Fire, Bob Marley & The Wailers would embark on a U.S. tour supporting the legendary Sly And The Family Stone. Yet after five dates, they were fired from the tour, supposedly for upstaging the main acts! Left with no money and nowhere to go, they performed one legendary show at San Francisco's The Matrix. These recordings, taken from a studio session before their legendary performance, find Bob Marley and The Wailers at their best. Featuring the classic lineup of Bob Marley (vo/gt.), Peter Tosh (vo/gt), Joe Higgs (per.), Earl Lindo (pf.), Family Man Barrett (b.), and Carlton Barrett (ds.), the Wailers are imbued with the kind of Rock and Roll energy that could only come from outshining Sly Stone. Even sweet rocksteady ballads such as “Stir It Up” take on the form of a rock and roll anthem in this session! Despite internal tensions that would result in Tosh leaving the band the following year, The Wailers are tight as they ever were, with their iconic vocal harmonies and rhythmic prowess on full display. Discovered and released on CD by P-vine in 2005, these mythical studio recordings are finally getting a long deserved analog release! The double LP on black vinyl comes complete with an obi-strip! Put this on your player and let Kingston come to you!

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Lee Perry

2LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Trojan)

33,99 €*

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Show The World Gold Vinyl Edition

Boo And The Tru-Tones

LP | 1974 | US | Reissue (Not Dark Yet)

19,49 €* 29,99 € -35%

Searching For The Jan Soul Rebels

Release: 1974 / US – Reissue

Genre: Organic Grooves, Reggae & Dancehall

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Limited edition of 200 copies on golden vinyl.

Reissued for the first time in over 40 years, Show the World is an unrated and relatively unknown soul / reggae album from the Caribbean. Having recently been sampled by Benny The Butcher, collectors and producers are starting to pay attention to what has been an overlooked gem until now. With the album ranging from sweet soul that sounds like it could have been released on Motown in its prime, to funky numbers that could be played in clubs, to reggae that could stand alongside some of the Studio 1 releases, this is sure to please many. No filler.

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Jan Delay

LP | 2001 | EU | Reissue (Buback)

18,99 €*

Release: 2001 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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2LP | 2021 | EU | Original (The Drop)

Wairunga

Release: 2021 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Wairunga finds the Freddy juggernaut digging deep to debut five songs and revisit two classics captured in an outdoor performance sans audience but with wild weather elements playing an important creative role in producing this unique live album.

Recorded in Wairunga, high above Waimarama Beach in New Zealand, it is place etched into the DNA of Fat Freddy’s Drop who’ve roamed here for over 20 years; to party, relax between tours, make a song Wairunga Blues in its honour and even to get married. Farmed by the Parker family for a century, Wairunga is an oasis of green pasture and native tree filled valleys that fall away to the ocean below.

In inimitable Freddy's fashion the new tunes run a gamut of genre busting styles. Coffee Black is layered with cosmic hot buttered soul and cinematic wigged out psyche-blues while Shady continues Freddy's Afro-Acid adventures with Fitchie’s beat-making tapping into a South African township brand of techno Freddys experienced on tour. Bush Telegraph is a reggae classic featuring MC Slave aka Mark Williams on the mic with freshly minted yum char spiced rhymes of hope. The other new tracks Leave Your Window Open and Dig Deep are loose rhythmic experiments that the band have been working on for a long time. Versions were developed, rehearsed, but then set aside – dismissed, demonised - only to be revived with new energy in some future moment of creative cohesion. The results are loose-limbed; broken and bruised beats smashing into subterranean bass and twisted up melodies. Bones and Wairunga Blues are the two classics from Freddy's vast back catalogue. Off the Blackbird album, Bones has aged beautifully - like a fine wine - the song’s component parts matured and melded together in harmony and balance. DJ Fitchie rates this 2021 vintage superior to the 2013 original. Wairunga Blues has been a work-in-progress since it was released on Bays in 2015. Kuki dials up some appropriately off-kilter keys to match the wonky-funk laid down by Fitchie’s bass line and the horns. It’s a mighty comeback – and a fitting tribute to this magical place.

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Special Edition Part 1 Black Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2020 | EU | Original (The Drop)

LP | 1981 | US | Reissue (Superior Viaduct)

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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The 45rpm vinyl edition is produced with a different track order across four sides and promises to deliver super fat loud audio.

Part 1 of a double album, ‘Special Edition Part 1’, comprises of six tracks of which ‘Raleigh Twenty’, ‘Trickle Down’ and ‘Six-Eight Instrumental’ were written and recorded undercover at the band’s Wellington studio, BAYS, while the other tracks; ‘Special Edition, ‘Kamo Kamo’, and ‘OneFourteen’, have all been developed and evolved from the band’s celebrated live jam sessions, whilst on the road in front of audiences worldwide.

Supremely crafted at Freddy’s own BAYS studio in hometown Wellington, the deep musical and rich vocal layers reflect Freddy’s inspiration from the black music lexicon and is a response to the crowd energy at their world dominating live shows.

‘Special Edition Part 1’ is the first release of a long envisaged double album project with separate chapters. The next journey, Part 2 will be released in 2020 after stringent road-testing with audiences over 35 shows across New Zealand, UK and Europe celebrating the release of the Part 1. These upcoming live performances will allow the band to fully explore new song-writing technology and give rise to a slamming Part 2.

The new album follows on from 2015’s ‘BAYS’ LP, which saw support from Financial Times, Resident Advisor, Dummy, the DJ Mag and Clash-acclaimed ‘Blackbird,’ second album ‘Dr Boondigga and the Big BW’ - which gained rave reviews by The Guardian and BBC Music - and the band’s record breaking debut album ‘Based on a True Story’, which went nine times platinum and remained in New Zealand’s top 40 charts for over two years after its release in 2005.

The album cover artwork is by Wellington artist Otis Chamberlain, a continuing evolution from his creation for the ist first single ‘Trickle Down’, a work that's morphed from digital cover art to the band’s massive summer tour backdrop and the recently released late-night buttery steppers ‘Kamo Kamo’.

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Scientist

In The Kingdom Of Dub

Winston Shan &The Hippy Boys /Winston Sinclair&The Hippy Boys

Release: 1981 / US – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Hopeton Brown, better known as Scientist, has been a pioneering figure in the world of dub for 40 years. His early love of electronics proved fruitful when (still a teenager) he was hired at King Tubby’s studio in Kingston. Brown quickly ascended the ranks and became heir to Tubby’s throne, producing imaginative and technically impressive mixes that solidified his forward-looking nickname.

Originally released in 1981, In The Kingdom Of Dub remains one of the best early LPs in Scientist’s long career. Produced by Roy Cousins at Channel One and featuring Sly & Robbie along with members of The Revolutionaries, The Aggrovators and The Soul Syndicate, the album offers a wide range of arresting rhythms, bold effect drops and exquisitely melodic bass. From “18 Drumalie Avenue Dub” (a reference to King Tubby’s address) to “Burning Sun Dub,” Scientist lays down a veritable roadmap of dub —filled with disintegrating echoes of satiny organ and textural guitar—firmly cementing his place as one of the true innovators in Jamaican popular music.

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Tell Me Tell Me / Chastise Them

7" | 2017 | EU | Original (Spade / Reggae Fever)

LP | 1977 | FR | Reissue (Onlyroots)

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Check out this classic Roots material by Winston Shan & The Hippy Boys and Winston Sinclair & The Hippy Boys from around 1969!

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Freddie McKay

The Best Of Freddy Mckay

20,99 €*

Release: 1977 / FR – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Originally released in 1977, the deceptively named 'The Best Of Freddy McKay' is McKay's fourth album, and not a compilation.
Recorded at the Channel One and Harry J studios, where he was accompanied by the Roots Radics, this work (a collaboration with producer Alvin "GG's" Ranglin) marks McKay's entry into the roots reggae era.

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2LP | 2015 | EU | Original (The Drop)

Bays Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Introducing Bays a 9 track boil up heralding a fresh chapter in Freddys fantastic voyages. Bays opens with slow burn funk of ‘Wairunga Blues’ journeying through a hybrid of reggae, hi-tek soul and jazz with techno rhythms underpinning Freddy’s signature horns and Joe Dukie’s smooth & introspective vocals, 'Slings And Arrows', '10 Feet Tall', 'Wheels', 'Razor', 'Makkan', 'Fish In The Sea', 'Cortina Motors' and arriving finally on the crooked blues jam of ‘Novak’.
BAYS is named after our Wellington studio homebase, where the album was predominately written and recorded around beats, food, darts and a winter of content.

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2LP | 2013 | EU | Original (The Drop)

Blackbird

King Tubby Surrounded By The Dread

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Reggae & Dancehall

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Heavyweight soul providers Fat Freddy’s Drop are about to take flight once again with the worldwide release of new album Blackbird!

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King Tubby

LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (Studio 16)

15,99 €*

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Justin Hinds & The Dominoes

On The Last Days / Oh What A Feeling

7" | UK | Reissue (Peckings)

Release: UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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12" | 1985 | UK | Reissue (VP)

Tenor Saw

Ring The Alarm

17,99 €*

Release: 1985 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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7" | 1976 | EU | Reissue (Fox)

The Skulls

Black Slavery Days

Rude Boy Confession / Get On The Ball

Release: 1976 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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A truly exceptional song showcasing the pinnacle of Jack Ruby's productions, "Black Slavery Days" by The Skulls stands out as a remarkable gem that gained significant popularity in the Ochi Rios sound system scene. The lead singer of The Skulls, Tony Thomas, penned all their tunes, bringing his experience from singing with the original Justin Hinds & the Dominos group. This piece is a manifestation of pure 70's roots music in all its glorious essence.

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Emotions / Roy Shirley

7" (Caltone)

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Junior Dell & The D-Lites

Twenty Flight Ska

7" | 2021 | UK | Reissue (Original Gravity)

Release: 2021 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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The People's Choice Dub Black Vinyl Edition

The Scientist

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Dubmusic Productions)

Kodama And The Dub Station Band

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Deep & heavy dubs mixed by The Scientist at King Tubby's

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Is This Love

7" | 2024 | JP | Original (Kurashi)

On The Ice / Pay The Price

Release: 2024 / JP – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Kazufumi Kodama is a Japanese trumpet player and producer for some of Japan's earliest and most influential dub groups. His claim to fame is the work he did with the group Mute Beat in the late 80s, many articles citing this group as the very first dub group to exist in Japan. Even if this isn't true, he certainly pushed the genre to its most popular in the country. His current band "Kodama And The Dub Station Band" released their first cover album "Tomoshibi" in 2023 from P-vine, and now some finest songs are released on 7inch ep! This 7" ep includes a cover of Bob Marley's classic 'Is This Love' which inspired Kodama to make a covers album. Bob Marley's positive vibrations are arranged as an instrumental song and made into a dynamic and excellent cover.

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Mike Brooks

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Backatcha)

20,99 €*

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Sugar Minott Prince Jammy

Give The People / Brothers Of Blade

7" | 1979 | UK | Reissue (VP / Jammy's)

Release: 1979 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (Island)

Kaya

28,99 €*

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Count Ossie / The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari

Tales Of Mozambique Purple Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2023 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)

31,99 €*

Essential Artist Collection-The Skatalites

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Following on from the recent super-deluxe box set edition of The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari"s "Grounation" Soul Jazz Records are releasing a new edition of the group"s celebrated "Tales of Mozambique". This new limited edition is released as a one-off pressing purple vinyl double album and a one-off purple CD. Sleeve design also comes as a new purple version. Soul Jazz Records are releasing Count Ossie and The Mystic Revelation"s seminal 1975 album Tales of Mozambique in an expanded double album/single CD, fully remastered and with the inclusion of two bonus rare single-only tracks, full sleevenotes, exclusive photographs and interview. Count Ossie is the central character in the development of Rastafarian roots music, nowadays an almost mythical and iconic figure. His importance in bringing Rastafarian music to a populist audience is matched only by Bob Marley"s promotion of the faith internationally in the 1970s.

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The Skatalites

2LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Trojan)

35,99 €*

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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The Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari

Grounation

3LP | 1972 | UK | Reissue (Soul Jazz)

36,99 €*

2LP | 2007 | EU | Reissue (Stix)

Release: 1972 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Like Sun Ra's Arkestra and John Coltrane are to jazz, the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari are to reggae - the ultimate expression of roots music and Rastafarian ideology in reggae music, music functioning at a high level of spiritual consciousness combined with an equally avant-garde and forward-looking approach to sound.The group's stunning, unique and groundbreaking 1973 album 'Grounation', a mighty conceptual triplealbum (the first ever reggae triple!) is, similar to Marvin Gaye's 'What's Goin' On', a definitive allencompassing cultural statement of its time and place. A sprawling album of raw and unique cultural expression that combined Rastafari consciousness with deep spiritual jazz music - an absolute and essential classic of Reggae music.The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari group came into existence at the start of 1970s, the union of two artists (and groups) of equal repute - Count Ossie and his African Drums and saxophonist Cedric 'Im' Brooks' and his group, The Mystics. Both Ossie and Brooks were alumni from the great Studio One Records.

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The Dynamics

Versions Excursions

27,99 €*

Conquering Lion Expanded Edition

Release: 2007 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Stix Records, a sub-label of Favorite Recordings, proudly presents the long awaited reissue of Version Excursions, first album by The Dynamics. Originally released in 2007 and highly hard to find today, it could be considered as a modern reggae classic. The band composed of Bruno “Patchwork” Hovart (production & programming), Eric “Flab” True (programming) and a vocal trio made of Mr Day, Sandra “Mounam” and Stevie Levi, quickly became famous with a 7inch single series, displaying their unique recipe of covers from classic hits by Madonna, Curtis Mayfield or The White Stripes to name just a few. True to Rocksteady and Reggae’s timeless tradition, everything from Pop, Roots, Disco, Soul & Rock is distilled through their fuzzy hypnotic filters to create amazing cover versions. Originally hailing from the villages of Cameroon, the halls of Harvard, the palaces of Versailles, the boweries of Bristol, or the squares of Provence, it’s then in Lyon that The Dynamics united and created their timeless music, both vintage and fresh. 15 years after its release, the album’s still a real success, with more than 350k listeners on Spotify every month. An achievement easily explained by the quality of the tracks gathered, which also brought the original release to become quite rare years after years, now selling for crazy prices on the second-hand market. "Whole Lotta Love" (Led Zeppelin), "Fever" (Peggy Lee), "The Creator Has A Master Plan" (Pharoah Sanders), "Lay Lady Lay" (Bob Dylan), these are only a few of the Rock, Pop, Soul and Jazz most famous hits reimagined by The Dynamics. In addition to the original tracklisting, you'll find on our 2022 remastered edition their cover of "Music" by Madonna, previously only available as 7inch.

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Yabby You & The Prophets

2LP | 2021 | UK | Original (Pressure Sounds)

27,99 €*

Release: 2021 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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The Viceroys / Zvuloon Dub System

Love Is Stronger Than Hate / Dub Is Stronger

7" (Medtone)

8,99 €*

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Ronald Russell / Theo Beckford Group

Rhythm Hips / The Horse

7" | 2020 | UK | Original (Deltone)

9,99 €*

Release: 2020 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Drum Sound: More Gems From The Channel One Dub Room 1974 To 1980

The Revolutionaries

2LP | 2007 | UK | Reissue (Pressure Sounds)

28,99 €*

Release: 2007 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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12" | 2020 | EU | Original (Scotch Bonnet)

Danny T & Tradesman

Mercy EP

18,99 €*

Derrick Morgan & The Blues Benders

Release: 2020 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Leeds' finest reggae rhythm constructors, Danny T & Tradesman, are back with an industrial strength combination enlisting two of Jamaica's top lyricists. Following the success of their last 12 inch release, Up Deh with Mark Iration, the duo have laid down two heavy duty slabs of pure sound system mayhem.

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Don't Touch My Baby

7" | 2018 | EU | Reissue (Hop / Reggae Fever)

Release: 2018 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Claudius Linton & The Inspirations

It Nice You

7" | 2018 | EU | Reissue (Spade / Reggae Fever)

Release: 2018 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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7" | 2018 | EU | Reissue (Boss Records / Reggae Fever)

The Pioneers

Goodies Are The Greatest

Release: 2018 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Derrick Morgan & The Rudies

Man Pon Moon / Copycats

7" | 2018 | EU | Original (Hop / Reggae Fever)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 1982 | EU | Reissue (Patate)

The Gladiators

Back To Roots

25,99 €*

Errol Brown & The Revolutionaries

Release: 1982 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Reissue of this 1982 Reggae classic!!

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Dub Expression

LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Dub Store)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Dub like it used to be from the High Note and Gay Feet labels.
A selection of rocking rhythms from The Revolutionaries masterminded by Jamaica's finest female record producer, Mrs Sonia Pottinger, and mixed by Duke Reid's nephew, Errol Brown, chief engineer at the legendary Treasure Isle studio.

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Dancehall: The Rise Of Jamaican Dancehall Culture 2017 Edition

3LP | 2017 | UK | Original (Soul Jazz)

36,99 €*

Release: 2017 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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A definitive guide to Dancehall Reggae! Over 30 killer tracks from Yellowman, Eek a Mouse, Gregory Isaacs, Tenor Saw and loads more.

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Rocksteady - The Roots Of Reggae

2LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Moll-Selekta)

23,99 €*

Ethiopians / The Hippy Boys & Ranny Williams

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Brand New 2017 Recut - finally available on Vinyl for the First time. 2LP+Mp3 in full Original Coverart. The legendary movie soundstrack based out of Kingston, Jamaica in April 2008, telling the story of the original vocalists and musicians involved. The sixteenth release on the Moll-Selekta label shares its title with a wonderful film, a heartwarming homage to the golden age of rocksteady. It documents the recordings being made for this very album at the Tuff Gong studios, Kingston, Jamaica in April 2008, telling the story of the original vocalists and musicians involved. Excerpts from an all star reunion concert staged in Kingston and older archive material complete the picture. Never before in the history of Jamaica, which already occupies a unique place on the world map of song, its sound embraced by western popular music, has such an illustrious collection of singers and players been assembled. The album showcases 15 rocksteady classics in sparkling, deeply inspired new versions, recorded in the studio which also played host to album sessions of a certain Bob Marley. Under the musical direction of Ernest Ranglin, a guitarist of considerable renown not only on the reggae circuit, but also on the jazz scene, mixed by legendary engineer Errol Brown - in Duke Reid’s employ at the Treasure Isle studio in the sixties - and freshly arranged by Lynn Taitt.

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Fire A Mus Tail / Crock Iron

7" | 2016 | EU | Original (Spade / Reggae Fever)

9,99 €*

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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The Clarendonians / Peter Austin & Larry Marshall

Lonely Heartaches / Money Girl

7" | 2015 | EU | Original (Shockin Aust'n / Reggae Fever)

Release: 2015 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Legend: 30th Anniversary Edition

2LP | 2014 | US | Original (Island)

47,99 €*

Release: 2014 / US – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Dr Boondigga & The Big BW

2LP | 2009 | UK | Original (The Drop)

33,99 €*

Release: 2009 / UK – Original

Genre: Electronic & Dance, Reggae & Dancehall

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New Zealands Soul-Dub powerhouse returns after 4 years!

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Jamaica To Toronto: Soul, Funk & Reggae 1967-1974 Black Friday Record Store Day 2024 Yellow & Green Vinyl Edition

2LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Light In The Attic)

46,99 €*

Dubs From The Seventh Sense

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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In the late 1960s, Canada’s largest city was musically booming as Caribbean immigrants made Toronto their new home. The finest ska, rocksteady, and reggae recording artists of the era—Studio One, Treasure Isle, and Trojan Records originators—simply did what came naturally to them. One by one, they hit the studio and captured some of the toughest tunes this side of Kingston. Collectively, they broke down racial and cultural barriers to form an unprecedented and little-known Canadian reggae community. Jamaica to Toronto: Soul, Funk, & Reggae 1967-1974 details this crucial sonic migration. [[Selling Points]] Featuring Jackie Mittoo, Johnnie Osbourne, Wayne McGhie, Lloyd Delpratt, The Mighty Pope, Jo-Jo Bennett, Eddie Spencer, Noel Ellis, and more… 2024 expanded edition with 20-page deluxe booklet featuring archival images, artist bios, and essays 2xLP set, cut at 45 rpm, housed in a deluxe gatefold jacket Compiled, sequenced, and annotated by GRAMMY-nominated producer, DJ, and journalist Kevin Howes (aka Sipreano, Voluntary In Nature) in partnership with Light in the Attic Pressed at Optimal on Yellow & Green ReVinyl, a sustainable alternative using 100% recycled materials.

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Jah Rej

LP | 2003 | UK | Original (Jah Works)

8,99 €*

Release: 2003 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Used Vinyl

Medium: VG, Cover: VG

Sugar Minott / Jah Thomas

Beg You Put It Down / Put Down The Dub

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Roots)

Uluru 003 Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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The Midnight Rock label was home to some of the greatest productions of the era, and like any smart Jamaican producer, label owner Nkrumah Jah Thomas worked his rhythms hard, using them to create scores of records by dozens of artists.

Thomas came up just at the right time, and his breakthrough recordings were made at the finest studios, using the finest musicians: often they were recorded at Channel One and used the Roots Radics. And sometimes the voicings that he created were released, but still more languished in the vaults. Caught on multi-track tape, but never released.

That was the fate of a session that he recorded with Sugar Minott. The singer – known in the UK for his monster hit ‘Good Thing Going’ – had made his name in the vocal group The African Brothers, before working as a soloist for Coxsone Dodd at Studio One, where he became a pioneer of the dancehall, his voice riding over many of Dodd’s greatest rhythms to create timeless music.

Thomas has worked hard in creating sharp new mixes from his sessions with Minott, and this single – a plea against gun violence as apt today as when it was put down on tape – is the first fruits of that work. A fantastic Radics rhythm with an exceptional vocal and brand new dub by Jah Thomas and Rory on the flip.

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Jstar, The Dynamates

7" | 2020 | EU | Reissue (Uluru)

Release: 2020 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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7" | 2024 | UK | Original (3 Bun / Creation Rebel)

The Gyrators

Hard Times

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Set Du Free / Dub Born Free

Niney The Observer

10" | 1975 | UK | Reissue (Jamaican)

Release: 1975 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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King Tubby Meets The Upsetter @ The Grass Roots

King Tubby

LP | 1978 | EU | Reissue (Studio 16)

15,99 €*

Release: 1978 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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King Tubby And The Aggrovators

Shalom Dub

LP | 1975 | UK | Reissue (Jamaican)

17,99 €*

LP | 1969 | UK | Reissue (Beverley's)

Release: 1975 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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“Tubby did three original dub albums, ‘Dub From The Roots’. ‘The Roots of Dub’ and the third is ‘Brass Rockers’ with Tommy McCook ‘pon the flying cymbals. Where he mixed it with the horn going in and out in a dub way and one named ‘Shalom Dub’ you can call Tubby’s too because he mixed the versions as they were off forty fives’’ Bunny ‘Striker‘ Lee

King Tubby and Producer Bunny ‘Striker’ Lee are intertwined in the birth of Dub Music. After discovering a mistake that made a ‘serious joke’ ( more of which later...) they went on to release the first pressings of this new musical genre namely ‘Dub Music’. Tubby’s vast knowledge of electronics and Bunny’s vast catalogue of rhythms would lay the foundations of what today is taken as a standard... the Remix / Version cuts to an existing vocal tune.

Osbourne ‘King Tubby’ Ruddock was born in Kingston, Jamaica on 28th January 1941 and grew up in the High Holborn Street area of downtown Kingston. He studied electronics at Kingston’s National Technical College and also on two correspondence courses from the U.S.A... When he had qualified Tubby began repairing radios and other electrical appliances in a shack in the back yard of his mother’s home. His work in the early days included winding transformers and building amplifiers for Kingston’s Sound Systems. Tubby built his first Sound System in 1957 playing jazz and Rhythm & Blues at local weddings and birthday parties. His reputation as a man who knew and understood both electronics and music grew steadily and as the sixties drew to a close. Tubby purchased his own basic two track equipment. He installed this alongside his dub cutting machine, a home made mixing console and his impressive collection of Jazz albums in the back bedroom of his home at 18 Dromilly Avenue which he christened his music room.

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Toots And The Maytals

Sweet And Dandy

King Kong, Eek-A-Mouse, Irie Ites All Stars

Release: 1969 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Formed by lead vocalist legend Toots Hibbert, and the ragged call-and-response background singers Nathaniel “Jerry” McCarthy and Raleigh Gordon, Toots & the Maytals were spotted by Beverley Records’ founder Leslie Kong who produced the group’s first records in the 60s. Their Sweet And Dandy album was featured in 1972’s emblematic movie The Harder They Come, which included a performance of the title track recorded at Beverley Studios and also highlighted ‘Pressure Drop’ in its accompanying soundtrack. The movie’s unprecedented success, combined with some of the solid gold singles pulled from this album, fast-tracked Toots and the Maytals to reggae icon status, assuring the group international success and making Sweet And Dandy one of the most highly acclaimed albums in Jamaican music.

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Wake Up The Town / Wake Up The Town Riddim

7" | 2024 | EU | Original (Irie Ites)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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LP | 1977 | EU | Reissue (Greensleeves)

The Travellers

Black Black Minds

24,99 €*

Release: 1977 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Do The Rock Steady' 1966-1968 Green Vinyl Edition

LP | 2014 | UK | Reissue (Voice Of Jamaica)

19,99 €*

Benjammin & The 18th Parallel

Release: 2014 / UK – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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“…the greatest man that came to Jamaica and changed the whole beat from ska to rock steady was Lyn Taitt. He was from Trinidad but Byron Lee did bring him come to Jamaica as an organist but he started playing guitar and the rest is history! We should call him rock steady… it’s Lyn Taitt as he was the man! He played lead guitar and ska at the same time…” Bunny Lee

As the frantic, frenetic pace of ska finally let up in 1966 the cool, cool sound of rock steady came to the fore. This languid, soulful music was the complete musical antithesis of its more famous antecedent and the gentle guitar of Lyn Taitt would forever define the sound of rock steady.

Trinidadian Nerlyn ‘Lyn’ Taitt had been given a contract by Byron Lee to travel to Jamaica to play at the Independence celebrations in 1962 but fell in love with Jamaica and decided to stay joining The Sheiks and then The Cavaliers before forming Lyn Taitt & The Comets. Lyn also recorded as a guest guitarist with The Skatalites before Lyn Taitt & The Jets came together in 1966.

The rock steady beat was slower, more measured and the emphasis was placed on the bass. It no longer gave equal emphasis to every beat but, instead, played a repeated pattern that syncopated the rhythm. The

rhythmic focus shifted to the core of the music to the bass and the drums where it has remained ever since.

“For that tempo the tempo is very slow with the bass and guitar line playing the same thing. You used to use two guitars. Hux Brown and myself or another guitarist and myself. And it was very slow but with a definite bass line going straight through the song…” Lyn Taitt

Lyn Taitt & The Jets were soon in such great demand that they would often play up to five sessions a day for as many different producers but they were not the only rock steady band. When the Skatalites had broken up in 1965 Jackie Mittoo formed Studio One’s house band The Soul Brothers (who soon became The Soul Vendors) and Tommy McCook decided to work with Duke Reid at Treasure Isle studio with The Supersonics. Bobby Aitken’s Carib Beats eschewed subtlety for drive but together these musicians were responsible for establishing the rules of rock steady music.

Their gentle approach allowed vocalists such as Alton Ellis, Ken Boothe and Desmond Dekker and harmony groups including The Techniques, The Melodians, The Uniques and The Paragons and many, many more to demonstrate their prowess.

Rock steady only lasted for a brief period, from 1966 to 1968, but its significance to the subsequent development of Jamaican music is incalculable and it would go on to shape each successive musical movement over the next four decades. Deejays, dub, digital and dance hall all stepped to the tune and pace of rhythms whose

origins were grounded in the rock steady beat and it is impossible to ever overstate its importance... or its beauty.

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Warmonger

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Fruits)

Satingarona Record Store Day 2024 Edition

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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The four horsemen are the rhythm section of The 18th Parallel riding down the plains to the sound of an heavyweight stepper inspired by the late 70s playing of the Revolutionaries at Channel One. Slow, refined and powerful, the interaction of the drums, bass and organ leaves room to an otherworldly horns chant calling everyone to dance and sing along. Probably one of Fruits Records heaviest release ever!

The first 7“ of this series features Spanish based UK singer Benjammin known for his superb work with Roberto Sánchez. He chants down all ‘Warmongers’. His singing style reminiscent of BurningSpear’s greatest days sends shivers down your spine! Dub by Roberto Sánchez on the flip.

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The Bongo Hop

LP | 2024 | WW | Reissue (Underdog)

24,64 €* 28,99 € -15%

Release: 2024 / WW – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Reissue of the cult album by THE Bongo HOP for the 20th anniversary of the Underdog Records label.

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From The Vaults Volume 3

LP (Studio 1)

38,99 €*

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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The Hippo Brothers / Miss Beulah

Don't Turn Away

7" | 2024 | EU | Original (Berends)

LP | 2000 | EU | Reissue (Jamwax)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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In with the old & out with the new..

For the second 7" on Berends Records, Miss Beulah joins The Hippo Brothers for Don't Turn Away. The b-side features the instrumental Grab Your Hat.

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Daweh Congo

Human Rights & Justice

7" | 1977 | EU | Reissue (Roots Vibration)

Release: 2000 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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First reissue of Daweh Congo's classic roots reggae album Human Rights & Justice originally released in 2000. Daweh Congo recruited the formidable talents of "Roots Radics", Jamaica’s premier back-up band to lay the rhythms that can be heard throughout this album

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The Ethiopians

Obeah Book

The Wicked Must Survive / Decimal Currency

Release: 1977 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Very rare 70s roots by The Ethiopians, produced by Niney The Observer. A steady rhythm with playful piano topped off with hearthfelt vocals. On the flip side, as expected, a deadly Observer dub.

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Reggae Boys / Blenders

7" (Amalgamated)

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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7" | 1985 | EU | Reissue (Top Ranking Sound)

Tda

Yu Saaf

The Best Of Roland Burrell

Release: 1985 / EU – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Mallory Williams (son of Jamaican pianist and band leader, Luther Williams), a celebrated musician, singer, arranger, and producer, launched his musical journey in 1976 as a keyboard player in various bands within Jamaica's vibrant tourism industry. Along his path, he performed and toured with prestigious groups like Jimmy Cliff's Oneness Band and also We The People Band, providing backing for countless Jamaican artists.

In 1985, during the reggae's digital revolution, Mallory Williams collaborated with Tony DaCosta (from Skatalites fame) and his group the Tony DaCosta Affair (tda), to craft the remarkable single "Yu Saaf." This release not only showcases DaCosta's impressive vocal range but also highlights Mallory's instrumental talent, which incorporates a pioneering proto-digital rhythm. We are thrilled to announce that the 7" reissue of this single will be released back again on Mallory's original 'now' imprint. "Yu Saaf," which translates to "You're Soft" is a pure sound business! It not only serves as a testament to Mallory's production skills but also possesses the power to silence any selectors.

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Roland Burrell

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Lantern)

The Upsetters, Junior Byles, I-Roy

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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A mandatory selection from the Jamaican singer large catalog, recorded at Channel One Studio with the likes of Sly & Robbie, The Tamlins, Don Drummond Jr., Dean Fraser, Ansel Collins, Winston Wright. The songs have been engineered by Soldjie, Barnabas and Scientist! A legendary cast for a series of unbelievable numbers. Roland was born in Pennants, Clarendon in Jamaica and was destined to become a star from his early days at John Austin School which set the stage for a career in the music field. Growing up in Trench Town, he met Bob Marley and Toots Hibbert who gave him inspiration and counseling as he would often ‘jam’ with them. During his growing artistic years, he sang with a group called The Shades, where he encountered Lee ‘Scratch’ Perr. Along with Conrad Brown, they produced “Lonely Man.” Thereafter, Roland quickly rose to popular fame when he recorded the chartbuster “Johnny Dollar,” a song that topped the Jamaican charts in Europe, USA and Japan. He recorded his first album, “Johnny Dollar” for Tanka Records which included the hit songs “Hey Mama” and “Stormy Night.”

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Got The Tip

7" | 2023 | Original (Skank & Groove)

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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The Father Of Libyan Reggae

Ibrahim Hesnawi

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Habibi Funk)

25,99 €*

Phyllis Dellon/ Tommy Mccook And The Supersonics

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Habibi Funk is digging deep to present the songs of Ibrahim Hesnawi, otherwise known as “The Father of Libyan Reggae.” Kingston meets Tripoli in this incendiary collection of Arabized roots, dub, dancehall and more. Featured on Habibi Funk’s last compilation (habibi015) with his track “Tendme,” Hesnawi crafts restless funk with evident buttressing from a reggae foundation. Highlighted across the LP is how Hesnawi essentially pioneered such an effortless synthesis between traditional Libyan music and Jamaican reggae stylings, plus the endlessly disparate funk, jazz, and disco accents which firmly situate Hesnawi in a league of his own.

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Don't Stay Away / Continental

7" | 2021 | JP | Original (Duke Reid Classics)

20,99 €*

The Uprising Maytone / Bill Hutchinson All Stars

Release: 2021 / JP – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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1967 released. A certified old hit tune and masterpiece to come out of the Treasure Isle studios. Great Female Rock Steady Vocal. The flip (also from 1967) is an alternate take of a great Rock Steady Instrumental.

A premium series of limited edition Japanese pressed 7"s - featuring unreleased and impossibly hard to find gems from the Duke Reid archives.

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Unchangeable Love / King Street Special

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Hornin Sounds)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Zion Train Feat. Devon Russell

Jah Holds The Key

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Partial)

Lights On A Satellite: Live At The Left Bank 1978 Black Friday Record Store Day 2024 Edition

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Classic roots reggae vocal track from the late Devon Russell.

* The original version was recorded by Coxsone Dodd for his Studio One label.

* This updated digital version was produced by Zion Train and released in 1992.

* A long-time sound system favourite with a dub version from Zion Train on the flipside.

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Sun Ra

2LP | 2024 | US | Reissue (Resonance)

59,99 €*

Dubbing It Studio 1 Style

Release: 2024 / US – Reissue

Genre: Reggae & Dancehall

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Available for the very first time, the intergalactic icon Sun Ra and his Arkestra’s Lights On A Satellite: Live at the Left Bank was recorded on July 23, 1978 at the Famous Ballroom in Baltimore, Maryland by the Left Bank Jazz Society.
The limited-edition 180g 2 x LP set contains audio from the Sun Ra Archives, and was researched and compiled by Sun Ra archivist Michael D. Anderson. Mastering by engineer Joe Lizzi and lacquers cut by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab. The critically acclaimed independent filmmaker Robert Mugge has also provided audio from the recordings he made at the Left Bank, featured in his 1980 film Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise.
The deluxe package includes liner notes by veteran music critic J.D. Considine, plus interviews with the centenarian Arkestra saxophonist Marshall Allen, NEA Jazz Master saxophonist Gary Bartz and pianist Craig Taborn.

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The Aggrovators

LP | 1973 | EU | Reissue (Jamaican)

17,99 €*